fabrication vs formation

formation vs fabrication

fabrication and formation both are nouns.

Word	Noun	Adjective	Verb	Adverb
fabrication	Yes	No	No	No
formation	Yes	No	No	No

As nouns, formation is a hyponym of fabrication; that is, formation is a word with a more specific, narrower meaning than fabrication:

fabrication: the act of making something (a product) from raw materials
formation: the act of fabricating something in a particular shape

Other hyponyms of fabrication include shaping, newspeak, prefabrication.

fabrication (noun)	formation (noun)
the act of making something (a product) from raw materials	the act of fabricating something in a particular shape
the act of constructing something (as a piece of machinery)	the act of forming or establishing something
writing in a fictional form	creation by mental activity
the deliberate act of deviating from the truth	a particular spatial arrangement
a deliberately false or improbable account	an arrangement of people or things acting as a unit
	(geology) the geological features of the earth
	natural process that causes something to form

Difference between fabrication and formation

Words related to "formation"

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